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Turn Your Coke Packaging into a VR Viewer
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Turn Your Coke Packaging into a VR Viewer

More engagement with Virtual Reality .  Will this drive the acceptance of VR as interface? In Fortune: You can’t buy the world a Coke, but maybe you could see the...

Internet 2 Rethought
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet 2 Rethought

Happened to be at a presentation announcing the launch of Internet 2, and admit I have not thought about it for years.   Not really an advanced internet, but an...

Networks of Parked Cars Could Save Your Life
From The Eponymous Pickle

Networks of Parked Cars Could Save Your Life

Suggesting that parked cars, acting as a network of computing systems and sensors, could play an infrastructure role as part of the Internet of Things.   Why parked...

A Consumer Value Equation
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Consumer Value Equation

We were proponents of using a 'consumer value equation'.  Still relevant, but it has been suggested that there are value drivers that are evolving more rapidlyIn...

HoloLens Developer Hardware Specs
From The Eponymous Pickle

HoloLens Developer Hardware Specs

In theVerge:  Good to see more specifications for developers, also for innovators considering applications but still no much new with regard to realistic commercial...

Automating Feature Engineering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Automating Feature Engineering

Correspondent Jason Maughan of PurePredictive sends along a Beta of some work he is doing on feature engineering.  Based on Kaggle experience.  As  I have always...

Google Neural Network Determines Image Location
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Neural Network Determines Image Location

A superhuman capability?  Certainly in volume of recollection. Applications? Retail product location?   Advertising analysis when linked to neural or behavioral...

How will Innovation Save P&G?
From The Eponymous Pickle

How will Innovation Save P&G?

In the Enquirer:  I worked in the innovation space there for a number of years.  Good article on whats up publicly, mostly in product as opposed to operational...

Wal-Mart Out Sources
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Out Sources

Fascinating behind the scenes look.   Note how this takes information and data closer to the business process.      In Infoq:" ...  has open-sourced OneOps, a cross...

CNET Smarthome Experiences Fragmentation
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CNET Smarthome Experiences Fragmentation

Now that we finally have a large number of potential interactive components for the smart home,  how will they work together?  CNET discovers, as I have,  that...

Fintech Evolves, and this Blog Does too.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fintech Evolves, and this Blog Does too.

I just noticed that the term Fintech had never been used in this blog before this year.  So is it that a new term?  I have just updated the text tagsFintech toFintech...

Financial Revolutionist
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Financial Revolutionist

Newly discovered, the Financial Revolutionist weekly newsletter on Fintech.  I admit even the term Fintech (Financial Technology).  Was new to me.   Nicely done...

Amazon Selling Diapers Under a new Name
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Selling Diapers Under a new Name

It remains interesting that Amazon will attempt to compete in classic private label brands:In Retailwire:" ... Parents don't take diapers lightly. Amazon discovered...

Dialog Connection LTD
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dialog Connection LTD

From Maria Aretoula   Dialog Connection. Voice Recognition application, Speech IVR, Voice User Interface (VUI),  Design, Testing, Tuning and Optimisation.  ......

Elements of Python Style
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Elements of Python Style

Via O'Reilly some interesting  technical aspects of Python programming.    An introductory tutorial,  On Fluid code. and more videos.

Books v eBooks
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Books v eBooks

Still buy them both, but moving towards eBooks.  Even my public library provides them.   Bit I like the feel of the physical book,  and its at a glance browse-ability...

GE and Accenture Partnership
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GE and Accenture Partnership

GE & Accenture- Partnering to Utilize Big Data to Create Business EfficienciesGE and Accenture are developing technology and analytics applications that help companies...

Top 20 Open Data Resources
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Top 20 Open Data Resources

From the DSC, most of these are well known examples,  you should always think of readily available, credible data to add to internal systems.  These are a great...

Pooling Robotic Knowledge.  IOT too?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pooling Robotic Knowledge. IOT too?

Had heard this being proposed some time ago, it appears to be moving forward.    Consider how this might also be connected to the Internet of Things, if the things...

On Dynamic Pricing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Dynamic Pricing

In K@W:  On dynamic pricing.  Seeing more of it, and as we gather more data it is possible to adjust to need or focus.  The analytics are here.  " ... The Promise...
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